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Rants

Coding IS Part of Web Design

by jcook on July 6, 2007

My recent post, 50 Common Web Design Mistakes elicited this comment from Wild over at Digg: These are programming mistakes. Not DESIGN mistakes. Maybe I sound a bit arrogant, but their [sic]is a difference between a web designer and a web programmer. Its [sic] one the industry needs to understand as it leads to a [...]

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50 Common Web Design Mistakes

by jcook on June 26, 2007

This started out as a “Top Ten Newbie Web Mistakes” for my beginning web design students but it quickly became obvious that I couldn’t limit it to only ten. I was finally able to edit it down to 50. But I suspect, as soon as the comments start, it will begin growing again. And, yes, [...]

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WTF is Experience Design?

by jcook on June 7, 2007

I’m a bit behind in my design jargon, so I have to admit that this “experience design” thing kind of crept up on me. I probably would have blissfully ignored the whole phenomenon if I hadn’t discovered that the local AIGA design awards offered eight categories for ink on paper and grouped everything else – [...]

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